LONDON (Reuters) - British energy suppliers Centrica (>> Centrica PLC) and SSE (>> SSE PLC) rose on Thursday, extending gains after the UK Conservative Party's manifesto pledge to cap household energy tariffs soothed investors' worries about the severity of the caps.

Centrica (>> Centrica PLC) rose 4 percent, while SSE (>> SSE PLC) gained 1.8 percent. Both had been hit earlier in the month when Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party said that they would cap domestic prices if they won a general election in June.

Analysts at Jefferies and Bernstein both said that the hit to the companies from the proposed price cap might not be as great as initially feared.

(Reporting by Kit Rees and Helen Reid, Editing by Vikram Subhedar)

Stocks treated in this article : SSE PLC, Centrica PLC